Hojun-Cho
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This is a personal torrent client, not a web client or daemon, so the rarely-used HTTP-client knobs and redundant tuning flags are gone — flag, config field, implementation, and tests removed for each. The option surface drops from 54 to 28. Web-client cluster removed: --all-proxy (HTTP_PROXY env still works), load/save-cookies, --referer, -U/--user-agent, --http-user/--http-passwd, --conditional-get, --remote-time, --check-certificate, --ca-certificate, --lowest-speed-limit. Pass --header for a one-off auth/cookie/UA header. Redundant knobs removed: -x and -k (folded into -s), --connect-timeout, --retry-wait, per-item --max-download-limit/-u, --bt-max-peers, --bt-stop-timeout, --disable-ipv6, --auto-save-interval, --human-readable, --stop, -T (a positional .torrent works). follow-torrent and human-readable are now unconditional defaults.
got
A command-line download tool in Go. It fetches HTTP(S) files over multiple
connections and downloads BitTorrent magnets and .torrent files — one binary,
a small set of flags. It is a downloader, not a web client: there are no
cookie/proxy/auth flags — pass --header for a one-off header (auth token,
cookie, user-agent) when a download needs one.
Build
go build -o got .
Needs Go 1.25+.
Usage
# HTTP download: parallel out of the box (5 connections); -s turns it up
got https://example.com/big.iso
got -s16 https://example.com/big.iso
# resume an interrupted download
got -c https://example.com/big.iso
# one file from several mirrors (segments spread across the servers,
# a dead mirror falls over); -Z downloads them as separate files instead.
got -s16 https://a.example/big.iso https://b.example/big.iso
# a torrent or magnet; seed for 30 minutes after finishing
got --seed-time=30 ubuntu.torrent
got 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:...'
# many downloads, two at a time
got -j2 -i urls.txt
Run got --help (or --help=all) for every option.
Common options
| flag | meaning | default |
|---|---|---|
-d, --dir |
output directory | . |
-o, --out |
output filename | from URL |
-c, --continue |
resume a partial download | false |
-s, --split |
connections per download (the speed dial) | 5 |
-j, --max-concurrent-downloads |
files downloaded at once | 5 |
--max-overall-download-limit |
global speed cap | 0 (off) |
--checksum |
verify the finished file: TYPE=DIGEST (sha-256, sha-1, …) |
|
--seed-time |
minutes to seed after a torrent finishes | by ratio |
--seed-ratio |
stop seeding at this ratio | 1.0 |
-S, --show-files |
list torrent files and exit | |
-q, --quiet |
no progress output | false |
Resume
HTTP downloads resume from a small <file>.got sidecar — just re-run with -c.
Torrents resume from the data already on disk. To resume across runs, point
--save-session and -i at the same file:
got -c --save-session=got.session -i got.session <urls/magnets...>
Notes
- BitTorrent uses
anacrolix/torrent; HTTP uses the standard library. - Not implemented: FTP/SFTP, Metalink, and the JSON-RPC server.
- Speed caps are global:
--max-overall-download-limit/--max-overall-upload-limitapply across the whole run. - Standard
HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXYenvironment variables are honored.